Sunday, 24th of August, 2008

And another batch of utter loveliness I have to bring you tonight! Oh yessss.Qua‘s fabulous new EP Silver Red contributes two tracks of Steve Reich-meets-postfolkrocktronica; in between, Tom Hall phoned in from Taswegia to talk about his field recordings and processed keyboards and guitars, the beautiful results of which he’s bringing to Sydney for two shows this week (see his website).
UK duo State River Widening aka Phelan Sheppard have teamed up with Japanese singer moomlooo to form Smile Down Upon Us, and their gorgeous first album is released by Static Caravan.
Also in there, some very fine drum’n’bass from dBridge, Brooklyn composer Nico Muhly‘s new album, US nu-folk trio Bowerbirds (go hereright now to see them play four songs for La Blogothéque’s Take Away Shows!), and Atom™‘s Señor Coconut moniker takes us All Around the World with a Yello cover! Meanwhile, a flashback to 1999 with early Anticon supergroup Deep Puddle Dynamics – a stunning female vocal sample in there that I’d love to know the provenance of…
And finally, some fabulous new and forthcoming stuffs on Sydney label sound&fury…

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Utility Fog teeters on the cusp between acoustic and electronic, organic and digital. Constantly changing and rearranging, this aural cloud of nanotech consumes genres and spits them out in new forms. Whether cataloguing the jungle resurgence, tracking the ups and downs of noise and drone, or unearthing the remnants of glitch and folktronica, all is contextualised within artist & genre histories for a fulfilling sonic journey.
Since all these genre names are already pretty ridiculous, we thought we'd coin a new one. So "postfolkrocktronica" it is. Wear it.